Demartek provides real-world, hands-on research & analysis by focusing on industry analysis
and lab validation testing
of server, network, storage and security technologies, for the
small and medium business (SMB) environment and the large enterprise.

Dennis Martin likes to include results from the ISO 17025 accredited Demartek lab
when he speaks at conferences and user group meetings.

This is an in-depth look at the architectures and technologies of solid state storage devices. The presentation will describe
solid state in detail, and compare solid state with traditional magnetic media. In addition, Dennis will include some of the
results from his solid state storage performance testing of Microsoft applications in the Demartek lab. Among the topics discussed are:

The leading switch vendors have revealed their visions of a unified data center network infrastructure
(converged networking), and the adapter vendors are providing new adapters. It sounds good, but what are
the ramifications for the storage networking infrastructures you have in place. This session will cover
existing technologies that are available now and what is still needed, the key protocols and standards
such as Data Center Bridging (DCB), also known as Enhanced Ethernet, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet
(FCoE) that will make the unified data center work, the advantages and disadvantages of having an
integrated network, and how currently installed storage networks will be affected.

In addition, Dennis will include some of the results from his unified network testing with
Enhanced Ethernet and FCoE in the Demartek lab.

Learning objectives include:

Learn about converged networking and what it means for storage administrators.

Understand the current state of the technology and where it is headed.

Do you use the full bandwidth in all of your server adapters, network interface cards, RAID controllers
all the time? Or do you only need peak bandwidth for these adapters some of the time? Would you like
to make a rack full of servers use only the storage and network adapters that they actually need,
rather than having to put expensive cards in every server? I/O virtualization is emerging as a
great way to virtualize your underused adapters across your server infrastructure. In this session,
we will define I/O virtualization and how it complements server virtualization. We will discuss
extending the PCI Express bus and InfiniBand bus and new standards such as SR-IOV and MR-IOV.
We will also discuss how I/O Virtualization compares to technologies such as Fibre Channel NPIV,
DCB and FCoE. As is customary, Dennis will discuss results of his early lab testing with these technologies.

Learning objectives include:

Learn about I/O Virtualization and standards such as SR-IOV and MR-IOV.